CIELO D'OTTOBRE

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CIELO D'OTTOBRE Movie

1999

(7,8 out of 10)
Biografico (Drammatico|Familiare)
1 h 47 min - 107 min
Directed by Joe Johnston

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	Jake Gyllenhaal
	Chris Cooper
	Laura Dern
	Chris Owen

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Negli anni '50, in un piccolo centro del Virginia Occidentale, Coalwood, il destino degli abitanti era segnato fin dalla loro nascita. La miniera di carbone che sorgeva nelle vicinanze dava lavoro, inevitabilmente, a quasi tutti gli abitanti. Homer Hickam Jr. (Jake Gyllenhaal) non era da meno; anche se le sue ambizioni miravano in alto, le sue possibilità economiche non gli avrebbero permesso di continuare gli studi, e, viste le sue doti non proprio atletiche, non sarebbe riuscito nemmeno a prendere una borsa di studio per meriti sportivi, come invece aveva fatto suo fratello Jim.<br>Un giorno, quando nel cielo d'ottobre passò lo sputnik sovietico, decise che il suo destino non sarebbe stato quello che voleva suo padre John (Chris Cooper), sovrintendente alla miniera, che desiderava che suo figlio seguisse le sue orme.<br>Insieme ad un gruppo di amici decise di preparare un razzo e di lanciarlo nello spazio. Dopo diversi tentativi falliti, l'ultimo lancio riesce e il razzo vola alto nel cielo. Le speranze del ragazzo si esaltano, e la sua passione per l'astronautica e l'incoraggiamento della sua insegnante di chimica e fisica miss Riley (Laura Dern) lo portano a vincere una borsa di studio.<br>La pellicola mostra come i sogni di un ragazzo possano avverarsi, nonostante tutto sembri dimostrare il contrario. Homer è un ragazzino come tanti, con delle ambizioni che non vengono accettate da suo padre, che si ritiene, a differenza del figlio, un uomo con i piedi per terra. Ma la perseveranza e la passione del ragazzo per l'astronautica lo porteranno ad ottenere il successo tanto sperato.

The boys created a remote ignition device by having a spring-loaded match rub past a match strike stip and then light the fuse. The strike strip they used was the modern "polka dot" kind. In 1957 all the strike strips were solid strips. <br>------------------------<br><br>The miners' union hall has a 50-star flag, but the strike takes place in 1958, a year before Alaska and Hawaii were admitted as states. <br>------------------------<br><br>The lenses of the character's eyeglasses have Anti Reflective Coating (ARC) which wasn't available for general use in the 1950s. <br>------------------------<br><br>The shop phone is buzzing, but when Homer's mother throws it out on the ground, brass bells can be seen inside. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Homer's dad introduces the football recruiter, he refers to him as from the University of West Virginia. That is incorrect, the school is West Virginia University. <br>------------------------<br><br>At the end of the movie when they show the space shuttle launch, the first shot shows a launch stack with a white painted external tank. The second shot shows a later, unpainted rust colored tank. <br>------------------------<br><br>Towards the start of the movie, Homer is walking out to his launch site with a box of rocket making "odds and ends". When he stops to talk to his three pals, the box turns 180 degrees between shots. <br>------------------------<br><br>While Roy Lee is shooting at his car, a piece of grass suddenly appears in O'Dell's mouth. <br>------------------------<br><br>After getting in a fight with O'Dell, Homer walks alone towards Snakeroot with nothing in his hands. In the next shot he is holding a bunch of boxes. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Roy Lee's stepfather is beating Roy Lee up, after getting released from the jail, and John Hickam tells Homer to get into the car, Jake Gyllenhaal (Homer Hickam) is not the one getting into the car, it is his body double. <br>------------------------<br><br>During the last launch sequence where John Hickam launches the "Miss Riley" Homer Hickam activates the launch box by flipping a switch on the box with one hand. In the next shot, it is apparent that he used his other hand to flip the switch. <br>------------------------<br><br>After Homer and O'Dell have their fight in the woods, Homer heads out on the road from the boys and passes the car that Roy Lee had just shot up. As you look at the car, the headlights are intact again and there are no bullet holes visible in the windshield as before. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Homer is writing equations on the chalkboard, explaining to Mr. Turner that they did not start the forest fire, the previous writing on the board gets erased without Homer actually doing so (the sound effects of him writing never stop long enough to erase anything). <br>------------------------<br><br>In the shot where Homer first steps off the truck after returning from the Science Fair, a camera is clearly visible at the left hand side of the screen. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Mr. Turner and the boys get into Mr. Turner's station wagon after they have discovered that an aeronautical flare caused the fire, there is a square block or stone (that nearly matches the curb) placed behind the car's right rear wheel, presumably to prevent the car from rolling backwards on the incline and make it easier for the actor/driver to get the car moving forward. <br>------------------------<br><br>In real life, both the father and son were named Homer Hickam, however in the film the father's name is changed to John. This was most likely done to avoid confusing viewers by having two characters with the same name. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Homer writes his letter to Wernher Von Braun, he incorrectly sends his condolences for Von Braun's failed attempt to launch the Vanguard Rocket. In actuality, the Vanguard project was spearheaded by the Navy, much to Von Braun's disliking. Von Braun's rocket was a Redstone 2 and was the first American Rocket to reach orbit. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Quentin first looks at Homer's calculations for the lost rocket, the sheet already has the equation with all the necessary data to calculate the range written down. About 2/3 down the page, the horizontal range formula appears as d = (vÂ² / g) Ãâ€” sin 2A = (450)Â² / 32 = 202,500 / 32. Solving this gives 6,328 feet, the answer that Quentin writes down later. (This assumes a launch angle A of 45Â°, which maximizes the range, so that sin 2A = 1.) <br>------------------------<br><br>In the auditorium scene near the end of the movie, the U.S. flags are hung incorrectly. The blue field or union should always be displayed in the upper left corner no matter if hung vertically or horizontally. <br>------------------------<br><br>When Homer and Quentin estimate the range of the Auk XIII, it's presumably done with a 50-foot rope, since they measured off 126 rope lengths to get to 6,300 feet. However, in scenes that show the full rope length, the rope is no longer than 30 feet, about five times Jake Gyllenhaal's height of 6 feet. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the workers are talking about forming a union, one extra is mouthing the lines of the character speaking as the camera zooms in. <br>------------------------<br><br>When the phonograph record is changed during the dance at the Dugout, the records are 45 rpm, but the turntables are rotating at 78 rpm. <br>------------------------<br><br>